midcult

[ mid-kuhlt ]

noun

1. (sometimes initial capital letter) the intellectual culture intermediate between highbrow and lowbrow; middlebrow culture.

adjective

1. of, relating to, or characteristic of such culture.

Word History and Origins

Origin of midcult¹

1955–60, Americanism; mid(dle-brow) cult(ure) ; masscult

Example Sentences

Sometimes called midcult, it would get you blithely ignored.

From Los Angeles Times

Playing with midcult is playing with artistic fire.

From Los Angeles Times

In the late 1990s she grabbed midcult by the lapels.

From Los Angeles Times

A producer who bucked Hollywood trends and made ambitious, offbeat midcult films into a major market by bullying and media favor-swapping?

From The New Yorker

Among the most famous of these came from Dwight Macdonald in a long Partisan Review essay from 1960 called “Masscult and Midcult.”

From New York Times